AMS Performance 2017+ Ford F150 & Raptor 2.7L and 3.5L EcoBoost High Mount Intercooler

Ford hangs the OEM intercooler low in the front bumper, right where a winch or a frame cut aftermarket bumper wants to live, and gives it a core barely larger than a sheet of paper. The AMS Performance 2017+ Ford F-150 and Raptor 2.7L and 3.5L EcoBoost High Mount Intercooler moves charge cooling up behind the upper grille and puts a bar and plate core with 113 percent more volume in its place, built to custom AMS spec fin and tube geometry. CAD designed cast aluminum end tanks feed it through 3 inch ports at both ends, and the cast outlet tube carries the blow off valve mount in the casting, ready for the factory valve or a Turbosmart VeePort. Underneath, a massive gusseted 1 inch 304 stainless steel support bar carries the core, overbuilt for what the front of an offroad truck actually takes. The AMS High Mount Intercooler connects to the factory intercooler piping, fits 2017+ F-150 and Raptor 2.7L and 3.5L EcoBoost, and comes in silver or black powder coat with or without the AMS logo sprayed on the core, finished to be seen through the grille.

• Class-Leading Core Volume, More Than Double the OEM Intercooler

• Bar and Plate Core Built to Custom AMS Spec Fin and Tube Geometry

• High Mount Design Clears the Lower Opening for a Winch or Frame Cut Offroad Bumper

• Massive Gusseted 1 Inch 304 Stainless Lower Support Bar, Overbuilt for Offroad Abuse

• 304 Stainless Upper Support Bracket Locates the Core from the Top

• CAD Designed Cast Aluminum End Tanks for Improved Flow and Durability

• 3 Inch Cast Inlet and Outlet, an Ideal Starting Point for Custom Intercooler Piping

• Cast Outlet Tube with Integrated Blow Off Valve Mount, Compatible with the OEM Valve or Turbosmart VeePort

• Drain Plug at the Low Point of the Intercooler System for Convenient Servicing

• Retains Factory Intercooler Piping Fitment

• Fits 2017+ F150 and Raptor 2.7L and 3.5L EcoBoost

• Available in Silver Uncoated or Black Powder Coat, With or Without AMS Logo

Why It Moves Up Top

Run a winch or a frame cut baja or prerunner style bumper and you hit the same wall: the factory intercooler sits low in the bumper, exactly where that hardware needs to mount. You can’t work around it, so it has to go. Moving the intercooler up behind the upper grille hands that lower area back to the winch or bumper you actually want, and once the core no longer has to squeeze into whatever area is left down low, it gets to grow. The result is a 24 x 14 x 3.5 inch core, 1176 cubic inches against 552 for the factory unit, sitting squarely in the upper grille where the air is already moving. Nobody on this platform is running a bigger high mount core. If the front of your truck is part of your build, this is the part that makes the rest of it possible.

Engineered to Win

The SnailWorks Engineering Team modeled the entire front end of the truck in CAD before drawing a single part, working around the charge pipe locations, the hardware the truck already carries and the clearances that decide what actually fits. The end tanks are cast rather than folded from sheet metal, so the air is managed into and out of the core instead of being dumped into a box, and both are cast with 3 inch ports. Three inches is real area for the air to move through, and it is the size the performance aftermarket builds around. The intercooler connects to the factory charge piping as delivered, and if you ever fabricate your own, you are working to 3 inch ports at both ends rather than a reduced factory size. A drain plug sits at the low point of the intercooler system, in the cold side outlet tube, so the oil mist and condensation every charge tract eventually collects can be drained on a service interval instead of pooling in the pipe. Class-leading core volume is the result, not the starting point. Most companies design a high mount intercooler to fit the space that is left over. AMS engineers it to dominate that space.

Built for the Trail

A high mount intercooler puts a lot of weight in a part of the truck Ford never designed to carry it. Every hit the suspension doesn’t absorb goes straight into the mounts, and that is where a high mount either earns its keep or starts to fail. The AMS lower support is a massive structure built from 1 inch 304 stainless steel tube, gusseted with stainless support material along its entire underside so it does not flex anywhere across its span, and round tube resists a bending load coming from any direction. The core rides on two mounting pins isolated by rubber grommets that damp impact energy instead of driving it into the end tanks, while the upper stainless steel bracket locates the core and limits movement rather than carrying load. A core this size is heavy and it sits ahead of the front axle, so every rut, whoop and washboard hit multiplies that weight straight into those two mounts. None of that is an edge case on this truck, which is why the mounting is bomb-proof on purpose.

Data Driven Design: On-Vehicle Testing

Before any product reaches a customer, our SnailWorks Engineering Team puts it through rigorous real-world testing to validate performance against a clear baseline. Our research and development Raptor is equipped with a MoTeC dash data logger and a 19-sensor array that monitors critical engine and turbocharger parameters in real time, allowing our engineers to capture detailed data during dyno testing and on-road validation. The AMS High Mount Intercooler runs that same program. Testing covers charge air temperature at the intercooler inlet and outlet and pressure drop across the core, measured against both the OEM intercooler and the leading high mount kits on the market, with every run held to the same calibration so the intercooler is the only variable in the result.

Product Notes

• Connects to the factory intercooler piping only. Not compatible with AMS Performance or other aftermarket intercooler pipes. A dedicated AMS intercooler pipe set for the High Mount Intercooler is in development and expected in Q1 2027.
• Installation requires removal of the upper front grille shutters and trimming of the surrounding duct material.